News Business NASA beams Mona Lisa to moon with laser (Pictures)

NASA beams Mona Lisa to moon with laser (Pictures)

New Delhi, Jan 20: Call it an ultimate tech art: NASA has turned Mona Lisa into the first digital image to be transmitted via laser beam from Earth to a spacecraft in lunar orbit, nearly


After receiving the image, the lunar orbiter reconstructed the photo, and corrected the distortions and then sent the image back to Earth using its its normal form of communication: radio waves.



Later this year, the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer will launch toward the moon and focus on mapping the lunar atmosphere and environment.

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